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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
TV - IV
Scott Arford
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TV-IV is a live performance for two video monitors. The monitors are modulated by the sound of their own picture tubes. A microphone is attached to each of the tubes, and this sound is processed through Max/MSP. This (audio) signal is sent to the PA as well as to the video inputs of the monitors.
It’s a deliberately crude translation of sound to video and video to sound. A reluctant audio-video feedback loop achieved through a fluke of semicompatible technologies (audio as abstracted image, image-light as audio). The resulting sounds and images are both haunting and beautiful. The interaction between the sound-light forms is sometimes humorous and sometimes powerful, as the buzzing, flickering dialogue between the two monitors progresses from a mantra-like drone to highly animated rhythmic pulses.
It’s a deliberately crude translation of sound to video and video to sound. A reluctant audio-video feedback loop achieved through a fluke of semicompatible technologies (audio as abstracted image, image-light as audio). The resulting sounds and images are both haunting and beautiful. The interaction between the sound-light forms is sometimes humorous and sometimes powerful, as the buzzing, flickering dialogue between the two monitors progresses from a mantra-like drone to highly animated rhythmic pulses.
Scott Arford (US). His works include sound and visual performances, fully immersive multichannel sound and video installations, and low frequency spatial-acoustic explorations with Randy H.Y. Yau as Infrasound. He is currently an instructor at the California College of Arts in Oakland, CA.